Ostensibly, Avatar: The Way Of Water was the story of Jake and Neytiri’s Na’vi family. Of the return of baddie Miles Quaritch , now himself a Na’vi ‘recom’. Of old wounds, fresh conflicts, and shaky alliances playing out across Pandora. But alongside all of that, another thread captured audiences’ imaginations: the plight of Payakan, the mighty Tulkun space-whale who bonded with Jake’s wayward son Lo’ak, and made a human nemesis in Brendan Cowell’s Mick Scoresby, a maniacal mariner making a fortune from hunting down Tulkun and draining their ultra-valuable brain juices. Last time, a showdown between Scoresby and Payakan saw Scoresby lose an arm. Now, in Avatar: Fire And Ash , he’s back for round two.
While Scoresby relished his high-seas villainy in the second film, this tim